Writing Online And Motivated Again – The New Attempt

With the rise of AI, there’s arguably never been a worse time to start writing online. Particularly if you want to build some sort of a career around it. I’ve never said it out loud before, but I actually fall in to that camp. Like many others, I would quite simply love to make money online from writing about myself.

Writing Online? That’s a new one.

I don’t think it’s all that embarrassing in the modern world to admit that you’d like to make money online. Make money from the comfort of your own home, writing about the thing it’s easiest to be an expert on. You.

I’ve always thought I could crack on in the background. First, build up a ‘body of work’, then publicise my blog to the world. I don’t think it works like that. Especially not anymore.

Writing should be a chill practice.

So, this time I’m making a conscious effort to be more candid, relaxed and direct with my online writing.

As a creative, I’ve never really come out of my shell simply because of my own brutal self-critical nature. Never shall I venture to sing in front of another soul, or publish even a simple blog post about my thoughts. No, I tell myself – the whole world will see this, and you shall be flogged in the market square for your hubristic ambition.

Well, no. (As I now venture to tell myself) There is a lot more, far more insane stuff occurring in the world right now. The klaxon has sounded, the alarms are ringing, everyone heads for the exits. During this sort of epoch, no one is truly really paying attention anyway. You can just slide it on out there and see if the wind picks it up.

And so another year older, I once again return to the ancient craft of blogging. I wince every time I deign to imagine how far I might have gone if, five or six years ago when I first got my hands on the hobby, I had actually stayed consistent. I might have been up there with the big dogs by now.

As is the case every time, there’s no occasion like the present to get things going again though.

Changes

It’s been a time of genuine, life-changing upheavals for me since the last time I sat down at the keyboard. Life has come thick and fast, and I’ve slithered through the experiences, with the end result of still being here – in which form I’m yet to fully understand

Without having achieved anything of note in that time, I can claim, with a great deal of certainty, to have grown as an individual – generally, more time under your belt, combined with some amount of reflection leads to growth of some sort.

I’ve steered off the track of philosophy and in to that of fast-fashion, interestingly enough. If an uninspiring announcement to make, it is one I make with a great deal of pride: Having moved to Vienna more than three years ago, I have settled in very nicely in to the team of a H&M store in the heart of Austria, speaking German (soon) on a full-time basis.

I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t surprised about this. Earlier this year, when I was looking for the next step after ‘giving up’ on my philosophy degree, I didn’t think that a part-time job at H&M would be the catalyst for the most positive changes I’ve ever made, and as it happens it did turn out to be.

The C-Word – the key to success writing online

Despite this seeming about-face, my heart still burns for making a career writing online. For reasons I already explained above, I’ve been scaring myself out of at least a hobby, and I think it’s about time I change that.

To begin with, I’ll just be working on consistency. After that, I’ll work on cooler series’ of posts, delving deeper in to those topics I think deserve a deeper look.

I started this post by revealing an (albeit small) embarrassing truth about me. Well, here’s another that I’ll end on today: My dream life, the one I would pick if given the choice by the almighty, is most akin to that of Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City – except just writing online. And with that, I’ll bid you adieu. Stay tuned.